Automatic windmill regulator



Mmmm "www, J C @UCM AUTOMATIC WINDIVIILL REGULATOR Filed April 9, 1955 7 a L W Patented Apr. 7, 1936 2,036,742

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE AUTOMATIC WINDMILL REGULATOR John C. Buck, Denison, Iowa Application April 9, 1935, Serial No. 15,492

1 Claim. ,(Cl. 10S-28) This invention relates to means operable autodisposed at various heights. A weight or abutmatically by the action of Water within a cistern ment 30 is provided at the lower end of the rod from which Water is being pumped by a wind- 2T and freely slidable along the rod 2l is a float mill, so as to cease the pumping of water at de- 3| constructed of laminated boards or any other 5 sired times, to avoidthe pumping of air into the desired material. 5 Water line and which ,air in the water line is In the use of the device, the weight 30 is distroublesome as is well known. posed at the depth in the well at which pump- Another object is to provide a construction ing operation of the windmill is to stop. Said wherein the regulation or control is effected oat 3| has just enough 1011037211103 t0 float and as l through the operation of novel float means, which the Water ih the Well l2 iS pumped Out and the 10 Will insure pumping of the Water in limited Water level lowered, the float descends down the quantities at a time so as to avoid undue Wear and IOd 0r Wire 27 until it strikes the Step OI Weight strain on the windmill. 3U, so that such Weight 30 with the weight of the The more specifi@ objects, and advantages, will oat added thereto, is suicient to pull down on l become apparent from a consideration of the the red 27, Chain 25, and TOCl 22, t0 Shift level 15 description following taken in connection with 2|, link I9, and Slide I5 and accordingly actu-ate accompanying drawing illustrating an operative the Shut-Off mechanism 0f the Windmill 5 t0 embodiment. throw the Windmill out of gear, or the vanes out In said drawing: of position or otherwise cause operation off the Figure 1 is a, View partly in perspective and windmill to entirely cease. Thus the invention 20 partly in vertical section illustrating the inven- Will Step the operation of the windmill when tion, and the water level in the well reaches a certain prede- Figure 2 is a View on an enlarged scale of the termihed depth lower part of Figure 1. It will be realized that as soon as the float Referring specicauy to the drawing, m gem again rises, after shutting off the windmill, that erally designates aconventional windmill mountthe latter Will be plafeed irl gear again 01" I'ened in the ground I I adjacent a well I2 fromdered operative, so that the mill will pump a litwhich the windmiu is adapted to pump Water, tle at a time and thus be easier from the standsuggested at I3, through a, pipe I4, to Water point of Wear, on the mill, as Well as be very works, a cistern or storage tank away from the IleXDehSiVe and eieieht- 30 Windmill. Various changes may be resorted to provided Said conventional windmill I0 has a shut-oli' they fall Within the Spirit and SCOlJe Of the nmechanism l5, shown as controlled by a sliding VehtOhelement I6, so as to demesh the gearing Il which What is claimed isr- N normally causes the windmill to pump, or else In CombinatOh With e Well and 2 Windmill- 5" controls means to place the windmill vanes I3 Operated Dumpih Dumping eemmllnieatioh therein a non-operating position, or in some other way With hel/ing e Shut-Off deViCe, el I'Od Suspended shuts off the operation of the windmill, The flOm Seid deVCe haVihg a Weight adapted t0` be sliding part I 6 is operated by a link I9 pivoted disposed ih the Well et the level at Which OID- 40 thereto and pivolted at 2D to a lever 2|, having eration of the mill isto cease, aiioat slidable rela- 40 an arm 22, suitably pivoted at 23 to a xecl part tively to said weight and into contact therewith of the windmill. Normally the windmill is` opert0 Operate the cut-off through the combined ative and a Wire or cable extends from the lever Weight of the Weight and 11G-et, Said Weight being 2| to the ground so that the wire may be manuon a rod, a chain to which the rod is connected, r ally operated to shut off the windmill. In lieu a second rod, said second rod being connected 4 of such wire, however, I attach to the lever 2| a to the chain and to the cut-off mechanism, said rod 24 having a hook 25 at its lower end. A chain rod having hooks, and the links of said chain be- 26 is connected to the hook 25 at any of the links ing selectively engageable with Said hooks to reguthereof, and any of such links suspend a rod 21 late the depth of the weight.

through the medium of o hook 29, in the wen l2. JoHN c. BUCK. 50 'I'he links of the chain enable the rod 2`| to be 

